1. Announcing Double-Take 5.0!
2. An In-depth View:Double-Take 5.0 Full-Server Failover Feature
3. Upcoming Webinar: Disaster Recovery — Myths, Mistakes, and Planning for 2008
4. GeoCluster — A Technical View
5. Whitepaper: Double-Take Server Recovery Option
6. Whitepaper:Disaster Recovery Virtualization
7. Recent News: Data Protection for SAP ERP Central Component-based Systems
8. Recent News:Double-Take Software Joins Citrix Ready Program
9. New Customer Case Studies
10. What Else is New at Double-Take Software?

Last week, Double-Take® Software announced the industry’s first continuous full-server protection and recovery technology: Double-Take® 5.0! With Double-Take 5.0, customers no longer need to install and maintain applications, patches and configurations on the standby server for disaster recovery. The product’s new Full-Server Failover feature also allows customers to use Double-Take for quick and painless migrations between different types of server hardware or virtual machines.

Features include:

• Full-Server protection and failover
• Automated Microsoft® SharePoint® Services protection
• Flexible and easy migration between physical and virtual machines and between dissimilar hardware
• Enhancements to Microsoft® Exchange 2007 Cluster protection
• Enterprise Install Console for centralized and automated deployment/upgrade
• Advanced scripting
• Enhanced restore capabilities

Read the Double-Take 5.0 press release for a high level product overview. To glean more product detail, just read below (Article 2: Full-Server Failover Feature) or download the product’s feature guide.

Double-Take 5.0 introduces the Full-Server Failover feature to the many disaster recover and high availability features that have made Double-Take an award-winning product. This Full-Server Failover feature is not a traditional failover solution and opens exciting new possibilities for protecting and migrating servers, while ensuring minimum downtime for your enterprise.

Migrations Made Easy
The Full-Server Failover feature in Double-Take protects an entire server by replicating the data and the system state with the same real-time replication technology that Double-Take customers have always relied on. This process replicates all the information and data necessary to create a complete clone of the source server, making it perfect for online server migration! Any Windows server, including Active Directory domain controllers, can be migrated to a target server even if the hardware is dissimilar. And, migration downtime is measured in minutes instead of hours/days with traditional server migration methods. This feature allows migrations to begin during normal business hours without affecting user productivity and the final step, including the few minutes of downtime, can be accomplished quickly after hours allowing you to still make it home in time for dinner.

Replicates OS, Apps, Data and Updates
Additionally, you can use the Full-Server Failover feature to protect any Windows® server against disaster. Full-Server Failover provides minimal data loss and minimal downtime just like Double-Take application failover, and it removes the need for scheduled software maintenance on the target server. Our Full-Server Failover feature replicates the OS, the applications, the data, and any updates to the target server automatically.

Protect Any Windows Server
Traditionally, disaster recovery solutions have focused on protecting data, but with the Full-Server Failover feature of Double-Take, you can protect any Windows server with failover, including gateway servers, domain controllers, bridgehead servers, and more, whether they contain dynamically changing data or not. Your can protect your Windows enterprise and fail over in a matter of minutes with the Full-Server Failover feature of Double-Take.

Learn more about the Double-Take Full-Server Failover feature.

Topic: Disaster Recovery - Myths, Mistakes, and Planning for 2008
Date: December 12, 2007
Time: 11am — 12pm EST

Speaker : Brace Rennels, project manager and certified business continuity professional, Double-Take Software

With 2008 quickly approaching, there’s never been a better time to implement or re-asses your disaster recovery plans. The success of your business depends on a comprehensive disaster recovery solution that provides immediate recoverability. In the event of a disaster, don’t be caught without a solution to protect and recover your business critical applications.

Attend this LIVE webinar to learn:

• The basics of getting started and simplifying the process
• The largest myths regarding your DR strategy
• The top mistakes companies make
• How to develop the right DR Plan for 2008!

Register Now!

Since 2000, Double-Take Software has provided a data protection solution for geographically separated Microsoft cluster nodes with our GeoCluster® offering. This fall, we released GeoCluster 4.5 and introduced new features to enhance the level of protection GeoCluster provides for Microsoft Cluster Services (MSCS); these new features also provide additional flexibility and reliability. Below, we provide technical highlights for two of the most important new product features.

Replaces Governor Resource with Status Resource
Pre-4.5 versions of GeoCluster created a governor resource for each GeoCluster Replicated Disk resource (GRD) when a mirror started. Mirrors typically occurred when resources groups were moved between nodes. When the mirror was complete, the governor resources were deleted. The governor resources helped prevent the movement of resource groups between nodes if a mirror was incomplete and the target data was in a bad state.

The newest version of GeoCluster uses a status resource instead of the governor resources. The status resource is created only once when the first (GRD) is created in the resource group and remains until the last GRD is removed from the group. Each resource group has only one status resource regardless of the number of GRDs in the group. The purpose of the status resource is the same as the governor resources, to help prevent unintended failover of resource groups between nodes when data is in a bad state. Using a single status resource that is static rather than creating and deleting multiple governor resources increases the overall stability of the cluster by decreasing the chance that a resource group can be moved when a mirror has not completed.

Snapshot Integration
GeoCluster 4.5 introduces Microsoft® Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) snapshot integration to provide point-in-time recovery of data on the target node if failure occurs when data is in a bad state. With snapshot integration, snapshots are taken automatically when mirroring begins so that if a failure occurs, the target node can revert back to a snapshot where data is known to be in a good state and failover can occur. Snapshot integration is just one more way to ensure that the target node can be made available to take control of the cluster resources when needed to provide high availability for your applications and data.

Learn more about GeoCluster 4.5.

Abstract:
The complexity of traditional recovery solutions compounds an already difficult situation and heightens the opportunity for human error. Speed and quality of recovery are extremely important when customers and employees are relying on access to critical data, but the average restoration takes hours at best. With solutions like tape backup, even a successful recovery results in the loss of any data that has changed since the backup was made. The Double-Take Server Recovery Option is a whole-server data protection product that, when combined with the real-time data replication capabilities of Double-Take for Windows, simplifies the restoration process and reduces the time and effort involved with server recovery.

Read this whitepaper.

Abstract:
In today’s businesses, the need to protect critical IT system data is no longer in question and one of the biggest obstacles to choosing an effective protection solution is cost. Server virtualization and real-time data replication and failover technology are capabilities that provide a high level of data protection while keeping costs at a minimum. Read this white paper to learn how VMware Infrastructure and Double-Take Software solutions can be combined to provide affordable data protection for businesses of any size.

Read this whitepaper.

Double-Take Software announced a data protection solution for systems running the SAP® ERP Central Component. The Double-Take solution supports two data-protection scenarios: Server Recovery Option (SRO) and high-availability failover protection for SAP ERP Central Component.

Read the full press release.

Double-Take Software announced that it is teaming up with Citrix® to create an enhanced IT productivity and data protection solution to accelerate server applications. Double-Take Software is a Citrix Ready™ partner, whose solution has been validated with Citrix WANScaler™. The integrated solution allows new and existing customers to optimize and protect business applications remotely using Double-Take with Citrix WANScaler.

Read the full press release.

Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Osler, a leading Canadian law firm, realized the vulnerability associated with tape backup and wanted to implement a disaster recovery solution that would protect their business continuity operations, protect critical client data and help eliminate human error if downtime occurred. After reviewing four software packages as well as exploring different ways to move data, they looked to Double-Take Software for real-time replication and whole server recovery. Given that this was a critical endeavor for Osler, Double-Take Software’s impressive customer service and support team were major factors in the decision.

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Borgata chose Double-Take Software for its flexibility in different architectures, seamless failover process, and the company’s solid relationship with VMware®. Using Double-Take, Borgata is able to create cost-effective disaster recovery architectures, provide 24x7 application availability, and follow their daily contingency plan.

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